LGPS investors from across the UK gathered this week at the London Stock Exchange to discuss the lastest trends in private markets.
The event was opened by London CIV CIO Aoifinn Devitt who described private markets as as “one the most intriguing areas of storytelling in the world of investing.”
Devitt also raised the questions whether recent challenges for the real estate sector could be an indication of more challenging times ahead for the wider private markets space with geopolitics and inflation posing new challenges.
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Aoifinn Devitt, London CIV
Left to right: Alex Bull, head of pensions at Torfaen County Borough Council, Richard Tomlinson, CIO at Local Pensions Partnership Investments, Tim Mpofu, head of pensions & treasury at London Borough of Haringey, Alex Brierley co-head of Octopus Energy Generation and Richard Hope co-head of investments at Hamilton Lane discussing evolving private market allocations in the context of LGPS pooling.
Left to right: Philip Pearson, investment consultant at Hymans Robertson, Raymond Wright private markets portfolio manager at London CIV, Emaad Sami infrastructure credit – product & solutions director at Schroders Capital and Stuart Fiertz co-founder, president & head of responsible investment at Cheyne Capital unpicking private credit myths.
Keynote speaker John Clark, founder and president at Performance Equity shares his experience of successfully navigating private equity markets for the past 30 years.
Mark Lyon, deputy chief investment officer at Border to Coast Pensions Partnership, Jos Seligman investment director and fund manager at Swiss Life Asset Managers UK and Peter Bachmann, managing director, sustainable infrastructure Gresham House discussing impact investment opportunities.
Adil Manzoor, head of private markets at Merseyside Pension Fund, Nadeem Hussain head of private markets at LGPS Central. Edward Palmer partner, CIO & head of sustainability at AlphaReal and Stephen Dowd, global infrastructure CIO at CBRE taking stock of the pro’s and cons of debt and equity infrastructure assets.
Lawrence Rusoff, managing director at Performance Equity, Stephen Wild head of pensions & treasury at the London Borough of Newham, Neil Mason assistant director and LGPS senior officer at the Surrey Pension Team and Andrew Carnwath director and head of impact, private equity at Columbia Threadneedle discussing the latest trends in private equity investing.
Vanessa Shia, head of private markets at London CIV speaking with David Atterbury, managing director at HarbourVest and Achal Gandhi CIO – indirect real estate strategies, chair of the global DE&I council at CBRE Investment Management about the latest opportunities in the Secondaries market.
Stephen Levesque managing director of forest operations at Campbell Global (part of J.P. Morgan Asset Management), Andy Turnbull senior investment manager at the UK Nature Impact Fund for Federated Hermes and John Raisin independent advisor at John Raisin Financial Services Limited taking stock of the growing demand for nature positive investment solutions.
Last but not least, Shamez Alibhai head of community housing and managing director at Man Group Adrian D’Enrico fund manager, funding affordable homes at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, Elizabeth Carey, independent advisor and Paddy Dowdall assistant executive director at GMPF discussed how to tackle the UK housing crisis and fund affordable housing.
